Org-mode Capture from Drafts App
25 Sep 2017Features
- Capture text from iOS Drafts app into Org-mode.
- Add org-mode style tags from your Drafts tags.
- Drafts keyboard macros to insert scheduled and deadline dates and code blocks.
Installation
- Get the Drafts app for iPhone or iPad.
- Get Org-mode capture action for Drafts from the iOS device.
- Change the Dropbox (second) step to your target org file.
Dropbox (second step)
fileNameTemplate: Test.inbox.org # <<< change to your target org file
folderTemplate: /Notes # <<< change to your org folder on Dropbox
template:
* [[title]]
[[body]]
:PROPERTIES:
:Created: [[[date]]] [[[time]]]
:END:
writeType: prepend
Usage
- The Drafts app is great for quickly capturing any kind of text. Like the tagline says, Where Text Starts. Decide later whether it is email, text, tweet or whatever.
- This action is for capturing text to Org-mode from iPhones and iPads.
- The action converts Drafts tags to Org-mode style tags.
- Drafts app is super useful for capturing text from almost any iOS app. This org-mode capture action is a quick step to getting it into the Org-mode workflow.
Links
- Org-mode keyboard macros for Drafts
- Org-mode capture macro for Drafts
- Org-mode: Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.
- Org-mode Capture: Capture lets you quickly store notes with little interruption of your work flow.
- Looking for Org-mode apps for iOS? Check out Beorg and MobileOrg